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Open City

By: Teju Cole
Narrated by: Teju Cole
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The bestselling debut novel from a writer heralded as the twenty-first-century W. G. Sebald.

A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss and surrender, Open City follows a young Nigerian doctor as he wanders aimlessly along the streets of Manhattan. For Julius the walks are a release from the tight regulations of work, from the emotional fallout of a failed relationship, from lives past and present on either side of the Atlantic.

Isolated amid crowds of bustling strangers, Julius criss-crosses not just physical landscapes but social boundaries too, encountering people whose otherness sheds light on his own remarkable journey from Nigeria to New York - as well as into the most unrecognisable facets of his own soul.

©2023 Faber & Faber (P)2023 Faber & Faber Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Fiction New York City

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So intense and detailed story of a privileged mix race Nigerian, passing through life without any particular interest in things apart himself.
The author showed weaves interesting events and facts around the world through the eyes of this self absorbed psychiatrist living in NYC.
It’s interesting.

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The audio ends at chapter 20 followed by the end credits, however, the same version in book form ends with Chapter 21- Julius' life after his residency.

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